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The Question The Professor Was Asking In This Study

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1. Characteristic of Interest (Question to answer): What was the question the professor was asking in this study? Why is only 12 percent of the class listening in a lecture?
2. Target Population: Take a look at the title of the article. According to the title, what would be the logical target population you would look for to answer this question if you were the professor? The target population would be university students, phycologist and university professors.
3. Sample Population: Who exactly was used in the study? How many? (Be as specific as possible.)
College students, professors, and phycologist where used to back up the article with percentages of students who listened in class.
4. Representative: How representative of the target population was his sample? Was the sample size adequate? Why or why not? Paul Cameron, an assistant professor at Wayne state university made a report of 85 sophomore students. The sample size was not adequate because 85 students is not a lot of students to make a report on. If I made the report I would have at least 200 students from …show more content…

Headline: To what extent is the headline given to this article a responsible one? In other words, is the title of the article representative of sound research? Be specific with your reasons. Cite at least one example from the research. The head line is “At a lecture only 12 percent listen”, that is saying that in a lecture only 12 percent of the students in the class listen to the lecture the rest of the 86 percent don’t listen. At the end of the article the headline is the final report of students who listen in class. “Only 20 percent are actually paying attention to the lecture; 12 percent are actively listening”, (Diestler, pg. 140.). The article explains how they were using gun shots to see who was paying attention and listening in class this is something that it is not included in the headline and it is a method that might have been a little more distracting then other

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